Technology

The boss at a place I used to work is all in on AI bullshit. My friend works for the company remotely. He says the boss sends him massively long email, constructed by AI, full of rambling half ideas. He said he used to try to pick through it and reply appropriately and professionally. The boss would feed that into AI and copy/paste the reply back.

Now my friend doesn't even read the email. He throws it into AI, tells AI to craft a well thought out reply, and just sends that back at the boss. He told me if the boss won't personally read and reply, he won't either.

Last time I talked with him he said the email chain has been going over 4 months, it's still going on, but he has no idea what it's about anymore.

Sounds like the bosses positions should be cut then. If the default is ai then let the ai. No need for those positions and there I saved you a bunch of money.

One of the reasons I just found a new job. Clear emails completely produced by AI and not proofread.

So, basically shitty bosses are shitty?

I'm so glad I don't work anymore.

One of the only benefits of this technology is that it will expose the incompetence of management. They can't hide their stupid now.

This started over a year and a half ago at my company.

Over half my department was fired, and now they are forcing us to give assessments on AI tools to replace the jobs of the rest of us.

We're so fucked, guys. This isn't just where I work, it's most places from what I'm hearing.

Honestly, if there are jobs that could best be replaced by AI, it seems that management could be high on that list. I'm sure many of us have had shitty managers and know how disastrous that can be for productivity. In some cases an algorithm would definitely have done better. It could hardly have done worse.

"I'm sure enough people don't compliment you for your courage and insight, but this is truly an amazing question. And being able to ask, "I have no idea what I'm doing , how do I not ruin everything and embarrass myself in front of my frat bros that I hired as VPs?" is so brave and it also shows just how humble you are to be open to learning even though you are at the absolute top of your field!"

Isn't this enough proof that these chucklefucks are a drain on company resources and time and the FIRST thing to replace AI with is the bosses so workers can organize collectively while the AI helps them stay organized without the AI being in control.

I mean, I guess that would make too much sense.

Genuinely though, if the first thing they do with AI is outsource their own decision making, isn't it just rock solid evidence that these people are useless at their fucking jobs to begin with? They aren't even making the decisions anymore, the AI is. Let's cut out the middleman, which is all a boss is now if AI is running the show. I mean, it's what they did with all the junior developers, because they had forced the juniors into using AI and then asked themselves "why not cut out the middleman." And they hadn't even considered that maybe the cost of AI would outpace the cost of an employee. How the fuck are these short term thinking idiots in fucking charge anyway? A lot of bosses are just fucking charlatans.

EDIT: Clarified first sentence.

Thankfully not my management but my SO boss is out of control. He keep feeding meeting notes to chat gpt to get actions and decisions. Like company level stuff. This has been going on For years and keeps using company time to talk about personal AI projects like making music. He even kept my partner late because he was talking about it! This stuff is Not even remotely related to the Department. My SO is losing patience with this bloke. Its no wonder no one in upper management respects him.

When you're so obsessed with getting LLMs to replace your employees that you end up using it to replace you.

Last company I worked for was about 85% of phasing out HR for AI. It was a nightmare for new hires, checking benefits, changing benefits, and so on... Also it was zero tolerant in firing decisions and the humans they had left never strayed from AI's recommendations.

They started trying w/ IT but was such a disaster the put it on the back burner.

I had a boss once who was going down this path! She wanted to make a side-business selling AI slop videos with financial advice. I don't know if it ever actually went anywhere. I found out she pled guilty to fraud a couple years before I started and made a hasty exit.

Cool fire the bosses then. The AI is doing their work anyway.

Clearly the AI needs to be trained to answer that the CEOs should be fired. They cost the most and contribute the least, especially since they have shown they're replaceable with AI.

Teachers are even using it to make coloring books of their students. Very creepy shit.